Sif EGET

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Sif EGET

• A presentation of
• Sifs membership for
• self-employed

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Motion from the board 1996

• New and growing groups will be active at the
  labour market without being employed.
• They have in many aspects the same situation as
  the employed.
• They will also need
• Support from the union regarding development of
  competency, working conditions, working time and
  contact with colleagues."

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The Congress decided

• To allow self-employed to be members
• To make the membership an active one.

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Sif EGETs service

• Business law advice and help, mostly concerning
  business contracts with customers and suppliers.
  This service is free up to 10 hours per year.
• Favourable agreements for insurances for both
  the person and the company.
• Eg. third party liability insurance, life
  accident or fire burglary.

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more services

• Unemployment benefits and Sifs own complement to
  that called Income insurance.
• Seminars and networking on our 19 regional
  offices.
• Special offers and discounts.

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Membership development

• 1998 - 2003

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Our proposal

• Sif EGET together with unions throughout Europe
  should investigate the possibility of starting a
  project and to try to get it financed from the
  European Commision

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Our motives

• Sif EGET strive to create a European project
  with the goal to exchange experiences and develop
  and spread best practice about what we can do for
  our
• self employed members.

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Our aim

• To identify and remove obstacles for people to
  work as self-employed.
• Increase the social security for this growing
  group on the European labour market.
• Develop the union's service to those members.
• When needed propose changes in European and
  national legislation.
• By doing this the unions will actively
  contribute to increasing self-employment in
  Europe and also supporting the entrepreneurship
  pillar of the European employment strategies.